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Hmmm, I was actually fixing stuff that had already been going wrong for a while, such as long financial transactions that crossed the date boundary. It's very

Hmmm, I was actually fixing stuff that had already been going wrong for a while, such as long financial transactions that crossed the date boundary. It's very annoying to have an actual issue that got largely fixed, dismissed as just some other made up conspiracy alongside faked moonlandings etc. Please don't do it. (There were certainly some overpaid charlatans, and I had to work alongside/around them; that doesn't make the problem less real.)

h2odragon 3y ago
You had the stuff fixed well before the date, no? So did everyone else. It wasn't a difficult problem to foresee. Most places in any danger of inconvenience did foresee it, and acted well beforehand to fix the problems. Without hype, without "crash priority budgets", without stress, without ever really facing the possibility of existential disaster.
- DamonHD 3y ago
  No, there was lots of stuff to fix, most of which was found and fixed in time, but there was BAU to get on with as well. Please stop claiming it wasn't a thing. It was. Would you have preferred no one to have worked on it and allowed more things to go wrong than actually did? The "so did everyone else" claim is clearly false. I agree things would have been nicer without the hype, but some people (possibly including you) are recklessly dismissive and won't do what's needed unless their nose is rubbed in it. Too busy buying more fast cars or remodelling the kitchen or whatever....
  - h2odragon 3y ago
    i watched 2000 roll on IRC. #slashdot. i had been of the opinion, before, that the panic was in no way justified. I retain that opinion still. Why is it so important to you that i acknowledge how dire y2k was?
    - DamonHD 3y ago
      You seem to dismiss Y2K as nothing at all. That isn't true. I would like people to use nuance and gradation rather than inaccurare hype and yes/no binaries when they aren't. You seem to claim to dislike hype too, so why add to it yourself including trivally untrue statements?
      - h2odragon 3y ago
        I beg your pardon for miscommunication. There were, indeed, real "Y2k" issues. They were easily predicted and mostly fixed long beforehand, without stress, without ever rising to the level of threat commonly associated with "Y2K". Then there was an industry that sold fear and bullshit labelled "Y2K". That was a far noisier and more extensive phenomenon, and did far more damage than real Y2k issues. "year 2038" is gonna be the same thing but louder. There's gonna be people charging millions for "updates" to 64bit time systems.

h2odragon 3y ago

You had the stuff fixed well before the date, no? So did everyone else. It wasn't a difficult problem to foresee. Most places in any danger of inconvenience did foresee it, and acted well beforehand to fix the problems. Without hype, without "crash priority budgets", without stress, without ever really facing the possibility of existential disaster.

DamonHD 3y ago
No, there was lots of stuff to fix, most of which was found and fixed in time, but there was BAU to get on with as well. Please stop claiming it wasn't a thing. It was. Would you have preferred no one to have worked on it and allowed more things to go wrong than actually did? The "so did everyone else" claim is clearly false. I agree things would have been nicer without the hype, but some people (possibly including you) are recklessly dismissive and won't do what's needed unless their nose is rubbed in it. Too busy buying more fast cars or remodelling the kitchen or whatever....
- h2odragon 3y ago
  i watched 2000 roll on IRC. #slashdot. i had been of the opinion, before, that the panic was in no way justified. I retain that opinion still. Why is it so important to you that i acknowledge how dire y2k was?
  - DamonHD 3y ago
    You seem to dismiss Y2K as nothing at all. That isn't true. I would like people to use nuance and gradation rather than inaccurare hype and yes/no binaries when they aren't. You seem to claim to dislike hype too, so why add to it yourself including trivally untrue statements?
    - h2odragon 3y ago
      I beg your pardon for miscommunication. There were, indeed, real "Y2k" issues. They were easily predicted and mostly fixed long beforehand, without stress, without ever rising to the level of threat commonly associated with "Y2K". Then there was an industry that sold fear and bullshit labelled "Y2K". That was a far noisier and more extensive phenomenon, and did far more damage than real Y2k issues. "year 2038" is gonna be the same thing but louder. There's gonna be people charging millions for "updates" to 64bit time systems.